~ Her heart belongs to the harvest moon ~
~ Her soul a portrait of autumn blooms ~
~ Paint for her a portrait...
from Michelle D. Lewis' "Autumn's Child"
Welcome to my online musings, enjoy your stay!
but I will be on after that.
Hope you have a fantastic Monday and that you have some writing to share with us soon!
Keep Rockin
LOL I never claimed patience was one of MY virtues!
I don't know how prolific I'll be -
But after this first posting, I think I'm gonna like this - yeah, I'm gonna like this a lot!Thanks soooo much for the gentle promptings . . .HUGS!!!!
Feeling kinda whomped today - spent Firday night hangin' out with my gurls - LOL I really enjoy that time . . . everyone just seems to kick back and let it all hang out! Funny thing is - from what I see, EACH of us truly looks forward to that "US" time! It's totally fulfilling, whimsical - hilarious - serious - helpful - creative . . . Love you guys!!!
Saturday morning, 'Tin (my thirteen year old son) and I got up extra early to watch the sky change colors. When we moved to this town, when he was five, 'Tin used to get me up with his exhuberant chatter, tugging and pulling on my hand while I scurried around getting his juice and my coffee so we could hurry outside to watch the sun rise. It was a special time for both of us, and no matter how much I grumbled inwardly, once we were seated, 'Tin on my lap, our heads side by side as he leaned back into me, my lips close to his cheek - I, with a heart full to overflowing, would thank God for the gift of a child who was this easy to please, and who WANTED to share this kind of time with me.
Apparently, 'Tin got a great deal out of moments like that, 'cuz he still looks for opportunities to snatch 'em. While I was getting showered and dressed, 'Tin made my coffee for me
and had himself a thermos of hot chocolate. He's too big to sit on my lap, so now he sits on the bench in front of me, and I have to sit on one leg just to be able to drape my arms down over his shoulders. Guess what - the majik is still there!
We finished our morning drinks while trying to decide what we would do for breakfast, then hurried to the car and took off - just took off - giggling like little tykes sitting on the kitchen counter with a jar of cookies between us! We'd decided to drive for an hour or so, see where we ended up and that is where we'd break our fast.
Twelve Thirty saw us standing in line to see BE COOL, which was a pretty darned good movie, and by three o'clock we were over at my "baby" sister's begging her to come out and play = LOL We ended up taking Rin, her beautiful Austrian Shepherd, to the Howard Country Regional Park, one of the most beautiful parks on God's Green earth. While 'Tin and Rin romped, Steph and I got to spend some sister time talking and making tentative plans for this year's family reunion.
We rolled home Saturday evening a little after six - feeling a helluva lot better than we had at that time the evening before. And ya know, we did the same thing on Sunday, except we took in THE PACIFIER at the movies - EXCELLENT EXCELLENT film!!! You like Vin Deisel? GOTTA see this!!!!! - and afterwards we snagged my neice and my grand neice her five month old daughter and went down to DC to see the St Patty's Day parade and on to the zoo!
Last evening, once we got settled back into some semblance of our "normal" routine, I felt a little rejuvenated . . . Isn't that what weekends are supposed to be for? 
Huggles!!!!!!!!!!
4Thy & Debbie,
March2005
Awww sis, what a month you have had.
I'm SOO glad to hear that you and 'Tin got a chance to enjoy life a little and spend some time together as a family. It always does seem to be the little moments in life that we stop to appreciate the simple gifts we are blessed with every day that are often taken for granted in the everyday hustle and bustle of LIFE...that mean so much to us. Ohhh St. Patrick's day parades sound like such fun. My mother's side is VERY Irish, so it's kinda like Christmas around here, minus the gifts and commercialization. It is my favorite holiday, a time that we all just get together as a family and talk, without the stress of MAJOR holidays. We are celebrating it together this SUnday, as a matter of fact. 15 people crammed into my mom's house around a feast.
Well, I have babbled on long enough. Glad to hear you enjoyed Friday as much as I did! LOL I will keep my eyelids peeled for more of your FABULOUS story.
Love ya!
What a wonderful read this was. I could picture you and 'Tin so clearly. :)